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The roots of conservatism in Mexico : Catholicism, society, and politics in the Mixteca Baja, 1750-1962
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Smith, Benjamin T. (2012) The roots of conservatism in Mexico : Catholicism, society, and politics in the Mixteca Baja, 1750-1962. University of New Mexico Press. ISBN 9780826351722
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Abstract
The Roots of Conservatism is the first attempt to ask why over the past two centuries so many Mexican peasants have opted to ally with conservative groups rather than their radical counterparts. Blending socioeconomic history, cultural analysis, and political narrative, Smith’s study begins with the late Bourbon period and moves through the early republic, the mid-nineteenth-century Reforma, the Porfiriato, and the Revolution, when the Mixtecs rejected Zapatista offers of land distribution, ending with the armed religious uprising known as the “last Cristiada,” a desperate Cold War bid to rid the region of impious “communist” governance. In recounting this long tradition of regional conservatism, Smith emphasizes the influence of religious belief, church ritual, and lay-clerical relations both on social relations and on political affiliation. He posits that many Mexican peasants embraced provincial conservatism, a variant of elite or metropolitan conservatism, which not only comprised ideas on property, hierarchy, and the state, but also the overwhelming import of the church to maintaining this system.
Item Type: | Book | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History > Comparative American Studies | ||||
Publisher: | University of New Mexico Press | ||||
ISBN: | 9780826351722 | ||||
Official Date: | September 2012 | ||||
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Number of Pages: | 448 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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